Those are POST parameters and not GET. On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Paul M Foster <paulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 06:54:34AM -0700, Michael Calkins wrote: > > > > > I would google this but I have no idea what this method is or how it > works. > > app.php?ph=cus&id=4 > > Can some tell me what this either called or how it works?Can I get a > tutorial for it please? > > This is standard HTTP/HTML terminology, not unique to PHP. What is means > is that the script being executed (app.php) has been supplied two > parameters: "ph" and "id". > > app.php is a script that can perform various functions, depending on the > parameters passed to it. For example, app.php may display a record from > a database. And in this case, app.php may be tasked to display a > customer record, and the customer record it should display is the one > where the customer number is 4. > > Syntax-wise, after the name of the script (app.php), are whatever > parameters, if any, the script requires. The first question mark begins > the list of parameters. Each parameter normally will be in the form > > parameter=value > > In between each of these parameter/value pairs, you will find an > ampersand (&). So in this case, you have two parameters being passed. > The first is "ph", and its value is "cus". The second is "id" and its > value is "4". What these parameters mean exactly to the script depends > on the script. There's no universal guide for parameters, what they're > called or what their values can be. You'd have to look at the script > itself to see what the parameters make the script do. > > In PHP, if you want to use these parameters, you would query the > parameters this way: > > $page_type = $_GET['ph']; > $which_item = $_GET['id']; > > If executed this way, you would find that $page_type has a value of > 'cus', and $which_item = '4'. > > You might have code inside app.php which would look like the following: > > $type = $_GET['ph']; > $id = $_GET['id']; > > if ($type == 'cus') > show_customer_page($id); > > Hope that helps. > > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- A Brandon_R Production
